Washington Wizards center Emeka Okafor hit the winning free throws Wednesday as his team broke an 0-12 skid to start to the season, and then, as if that wasn’t enough, helped keep a fan from falling out of the stands as Okafor left the floor, The Washington Post reported.

The fan, reaching down to exchange high-fives with Wizards players, began to fall over the railing about eight feet above the floor.

“I was just so excited about the first win of the season that I leaned over too far,” the fan, who declined to be identified out of embarrassment, told The Post. “I didn’t realize (Okafor) was too far away.”

The fan, as he lost his balance, was able to grab the railing, but found himself upside down and losing his grip. Okafor reacted quickly.

“He was falling over and I saw the guy,” Okafor said of the incident, according to The Post. “He was smiling the whole time. Before I got there, he had stopped himself. I just helped put him back into the stands.”

According to the newspaper, the fan’s friends began to shout, “Emeka Okafor just saved your life!” An exaggeration perhaps, according to The Post, but the Wizards big man may have saved him from a potential hospital visit.

“He was over (the railing), but he had a huge smile on his face. He had absolutely no awareness of the danger he was in,” Okafor said with a laugh. “That’s a first for me. I haven’t seen that before.”

Okafor scored six points in the 84-82 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers, adding eight rebounds, three steals and one clutch save, The Post noted.